Oriental rug news
The Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum, the first museum in the world of its kind was founded in 1967 and located in different buildings for 54 years. In 2014, the Carpet Museum moved to a new specially designed building in order to present to the world, fully and at the proper … read more
Bruun Rasmussens’s auction ‘Paintings, furniture, carpets, decorative arts and books’ includes a limited number of rugs and carpets from Persia, China, Caucasus and a French Aubusson tapestry. The date of the sale is 8 March 2021 at 4:00 pm. The previews take place 4-7 March. The catalogue with carpets is … read more
Rippon Boswell carpet auction ‘Gereneral Rug Auction Online Only’ with oriental rugs will take place 13 March 2021 at 3 p.m. Viewing is not possible. The auction includes 218 antique rugs and among them Caucasian rugs, Turkmen rugs, Anatolian rugs, Persian rugs, Chinese rugs and more. The online catalogue can … read more
On 18 February 2021, the Russian Museum of Ethnography in St. Petersburg hosted the opening ceremony of the exhibition ‘Weaving the Thread of Fate into the Carpet – Decorative and Applied Art of Azerbaijan’ in the Russian Museum of Ethnography Collection and the presentation of the catalog of the same … read more
